Officials say admission discharge unit at Erie Shores is improving wait times

Erie Shores HealthCare has opened a renovated discharge lounge and received $2.33 million in new annual base funding to ...
jdpower

Clear Communication and Management of Expectations at Admission and Discharge Emerge as Key Drivers of Hospital Patient Satisfaction

In the post-pandemic world, hospital staffing has become a moving target. Costs have soared for many facilities, forcing them to stretch their resources to match fluctuating demand. Add in frequent ...

Erie Shores says admission and discharge unit is helping cut wait times

New annual funding for Erie Shores HealthCare will in part support an admission and discharge unit that officials say is ...
TMCnet

Manage Transitions of Care from Admissions to Post-Discharge with the Next-Generation of Olio

Olio, a leading healthcare software company, announces continued investment for Skilled Nursing Operators to support transitions of care by reducing referral leakage, optimizing occupancy, and ...
Smart Business Magazine

Utilization management: The effect of pre-admission and post-discharge planning on health and costs

“Many employers and their health plan members assume that a utilization management program’s only goal is to approve or deny medical procedures and save costs for the health plan. In reality, ...
Medscape

Medication Reconciliation at Hospital Discharge: Evaluating Discrepancies

Medication reconciliation at hospital admission and at discharge are 2 very distinct processes. Admission medication reconciliation requires a straightforward comparison of a comprehensive list of a ...
Fierce Healthcare

Source of readmissions: hospital admissions, not discharge planning

Hospitals in areas that have high admission rates also have a high propensity for readmission rates, according to a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers at ...
Modern Healthcare

Preparing for discharge shortly after admission to reduce length of stay

At Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando, Fla., the daily census hovers around 75 patients. But as recently as two years ago, the hospital was frequently filling all 100 available beds. Concerned ...
Heart

Predicting 30-day mortality after hospital admission for heart failure: the National Heart Failure Audit for England and Wales

Background The National Heart Failure Audit gathers data on patients coded at discharge (or death) as having heart failure as ...
Los Angeles Times

Hospital allegations date to ’04

State and county inspectors found serious irregularities in the admission and treatment policies of a Los Angeles hospital four years before authorities raided it and charged its chief executive with ...
ascopubs.org

Thirty-Day Unplanned Hospital Readmissions in Patients With Cancer and the Impact of Social Determinants of Health: A Machine Learning Approach

We included 13,717 patients in this study in two cohorts (5,059 without SDOH data and 8,658 with SDOH data). Unplanned 30-day readmission occurred in 21.3% of the cases overall. The five main non-SDOH ...